Memorial grows outside of Baby Chance’s home

NORTH PORT, Fla. – The photo of sweet baby Chance Walsh is now making national headlines after the nine-week-old disappeared a month ago. People in this small town are doing whatever they can to help. One woman, who doesn’t know the family, dropped a teddy bear off at the makeshift memorial on Saturday. She says […]

Car catches at 7-Eleven in Lee County

FORT MYERS, Fla.- A couple vacationing in Southwest Florida had their car go up in flames Saturday afternoon. The New Port Richie couple pulled into a 7-Eleven at the corner of College Parkway and U.S. 41 Saturday afternoon to get gas. They told WINK News suddenly their car caught fire. The steering wheel of the red Honda was […]

Glitch sends incorrect driver’s licenses out

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Thousands of motorists paid $27 to update their driver’s licenses but were instead sent new licenses with their old address. The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said there was a glitch in its 30-year-old computer system and apologized for the mistake. The Tampa Bay Times reports 8,576 people were […]

Orlando teen found safe

ORLANDO, Fla. – Orlando Police have found 14-year-old Jordan Turner safe. Police did not elaborate on where Turner was found but tweeted she is safe at 8:42 p.m. An amber alert was issued for the teenager 6:20 p.m. Original Story: Authorities are looking for Jordan B. Turner. She was last seen in the 600 block […]

Orlando boy left on hot bus for hours

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Authorities are investigating after they say a preschool and child care facility left a 5-year-old boy alone on a bus for five hours. Orange County Sheriff’s officials said someone was walking through the parking lot at 1 p.m. Friday when they spotted the boy and called 911. Authorities said he had […]

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“Lucky one” in Oregon shooting speaks about massacre

SEATTLE (AP) – The 18-year-old college student singled out by the shooter as the “lucky one” to survive and deliver a package to law enforcement spoke for the first time Friday about the massacre in Roseburg, Oregon. In a written statement that was the most detailed account thus far of the Oct. 1 shooting, Mathew […]

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Black men gathering for Million Man March 20th anniversary

WASHINGTON (AP) – Black men from around the nation are gathering on the National Mall to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March and call for policing reforms and changes in black communities. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who spearheaded the original march, will lead an anniversary gathering Saturday at the Capitol […]

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FCC to consider further cutting cost of calls for inmates

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Federal Communications Commission is moving to further limit how much companies can charge for phone calls made from jails and prisons, capping rates on all types of calls. Two years ago, under pressure from the families of the more than 2 million people incarcerated in the U.S., the FCC […]

Danish zoo plans to publicly dissect lion

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – A Danish zoo is planning to publicly dissect a year-old lion – a year after another park’s decision to dissect and skin a giraffe and feed it to lions triggered massive online protests, a zookeeper said Saturday, adding the purpose of it was to give people “a closer to the animals […]